I am experiencing two irritating problems with Edit Tables at run time.

1) I can not seem to figure out how to edit existing data. I seem to have to re-type the entire contents of a cell to make a change. I am sure there must be a way but can't find it documented. I think I have tried every keystroke combination and mouse click possibility.

The only items I have checked in "More Edit Table Properties" are Visible, Border and Grid Lines. FYI - I place my own labels above the columns because I have customized buttons associated with any column which has a verifile.

2) I would like to make the current selection SLIGHTLY more obvious than the default dashed border. Any suggestions?

Thanks folks.

2) I would like to

1. Press F2 to put a cell in "edit" mode. If you want to change the key that will do this here is a post that shows you how.

2. You can use the COLOR_BY_POS message for the Send_Message function to bring more attention to the current selection.

dbakke@srpcs.com

SRP Computer Solutions, Inc.

So is there such a message as DTM_SETESCKEY to change the way the ESCape key works in Edittables?

Cheers, M@

Napitek,

1) When the user enters an edit table cell the cell is in overwrite mode by default. As Don says F2 changes the mode to edit mode. There is also a way to get edit table cells in edit mode by default. Try to do a search for EDITCELL. But the method isn't totally reliable. I have a couple postings from last year where I point out some problems. Do a search for EDITCELL AND OYSTEIN. Btw - I don't know if these postings are in this section or the Works section.

- Oystein -

Thanks folks for the suggestions. I will try them.

Oystein wrote "Btw - I don't know if these postings are in this section or the Works section." The only additional item I see in the Works section is a download area. Are there different messages and resources there? I need all the help I can get.

THANKS

I see that there are a whole different set of messages in the Works section.

My printed docs don't seem to include COLOR_BY_POS but the help file in OI does have it. I was trying to avoid printing out thousands of pages of documentation. However, this is about the third or fourth time I have struggled only to find out the command I needed was not in the old but only available printed documentation. I am keeping notes so I can write my book 'OI for guys stuck in the Rev / ARev world.'

THANKS AGAIN for all your help.

M@,

So is there such a message as DTM_SETESCKEY to change the way the ESCape key works in Edittables?

There sure is:

	Equ DTM_SETEDITKEY to 1118

	Equ DT_BEGINEDIT to 1

	Equ DT_ABORTEDIT to 3

	Equ EDIT_CODE to 115 ; * Set begin edit key to F4

	Equ ABORT_CODE to 116 ; * Set abort edit key to F5

	/* 113 is the virtual key code for F2. 114 is the virtual key code for F3 and so on. So just determine which function key you want to use and replace 113 with the appropriate value. */

	hWnd=Get_Property(@Window:".TABLE_1", "HANDLE")

	rv=SendMessage(hWnd, DTM_SETEDITKEY, DT_BEGINEDIT, EDIT_CODE)

	rv=SendMessage(hWnd, DTM_SETEDITKEY, DT_ABORTEDIT, ABORT_CODE)

dbakke@srpcs.com

SRP Computer Solutions, Inc.

Good stuff - thanks for that! My Datatable equates list seems incomplete though. Is there a way of getting a more complete list??

Cheers, M@

M@,

Mine came from the original ProtoView documentation for the DataTable 2.0.

dbakke@srpcs.com

SRP Computer Solutions, Inc.

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